Call: KV4FZ
Operator(s):
Station: KV4FZ
Added: 03/Mar/2011
Contest: CQ 160-METER CONTEST, SSB
Class: SINGLE OP HP
QTH: United States Virgin
Operating time: 23.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 513 State/Prov = 55 Countries = 51 Total Score = 312,382
Club:
Soapbox:
My plans this year to get a betterscore paid off with 100K better thanlast year....but the plan toconcentrate on EU 10 points was amistake. Few were there who couldhear me through the EU splatter walleven though I move up the band to 1850and above. Even S&P was a waste oftime as I called KI7MT for about anhour and he just could not get mycall. I got him on night two butforgot to realize that a half a dozensuper stations with QRO could take outthe whole lower portion of the band. What amazed me was that AsiaticStations like UK9AA, UK9AAN, RA9CMOand P33W could work me with ease whencloser Eu's could not hear me. UK9AAis in rare Uzbekistan more than 7000miles away and i got him before anyother EU's were worked. (He calledme!) Even ZL3IX at 8665 miles was noproblem....but....I just could not loga single PA, F, LY, OE, GW,
GI, YU,HB, SM or SV even ON4UN could not hearme. D4C was stonger than most Nastation is but I could not hear himthe second night at all! All the longdistance stations I worked were wellout of the splatter curtain zone. Another bummer was no SD, VT or VE5were heard. It was all veryfrustrating and not much I could doabout it. The Eu run I had counted onboth nights, or even for one night,never a happened. The PJ stations whoare getting 10m points per every Q andare closer to most of the US thanmyself where doing well to WesternEurope and had significant piles fromthe mainland USA. Again I tried mybest to finish at least in the top 10but after a while I saw that this washopeless. I did work some new 160 SSBcountries but since I am not chasingthat at all, I guess I will have toresort to giving out VI Q's as thosein the 10 point only region can makeme look like a whip with 100 wattsfrom a hotel and a dipole on the roof!